Archives for October, 2012

In Kafka’s story “The Metamorphosis,” first published in 1915, the protagonist’s body turns into a cockroach. But that’s not the point. The point is that nothing else changes. The protagonist (and his neuroticism) remains the same.
This is the irony of change. Change happens on the backdrop of the changeless. As the body ages, to a large extent we still feel the same inside. As...

Diaspora is a dispersal, scattering, migration of people away from their ancestral roots, away from their origins. In modern use, we tend to equate the word "diaspora" with the notion of an ethnic, immigrant community. For example, a such-and-such diaspora in such-and-such place (say, an Armenian diaspora in US).A diaspora is a new coordinate, a kind of portable...

Context: please, if you haven’t yet, read my posts on the Neural Tribe (NT) Perspective - Neural Tribe (an Introduction to the Meme) and Neural Tribe Doctrine - to get a better sense of where I am coming from with all of this. Both of these posts introduce a new narrative about what we are and what we aren't.

Context: please, if you haven’t yet, read my posts on the Neural Tribe (NT) Perspective - Neural Tribe (an Introduction to the Meme) and Neural Tribe Doctrine - to get a better sense of where I am coming from with all of this. Both of these posts introduce a new narrative about what we are and what we aren't.

Neural Tribe is Information-Processing TribeNeurons process information and share it with each...

A human - or any animal, for that matter - is a multicellular colossus that consists of various cellular types. One way of looking at our nervous systems is that they are not really systems but colonies of stand-alone neuron (all neurons - as close as they are to each other - are separated by synaptic gaps and, as such, stand-alone). ...

I immigrated to the US in 1991. I speak English well enough for most of my psychotherapy clients to not bother asking me where I am from. I've been here for exactly half of my life (I was 21 when I left Russia) and yet I consider myself largely "culturally illiterate" when it comes down to...